Correlation between literacy and child sex ratio in Rajasthan: A Geographical study on gender disparity

This paper is an attempt to analysis the correlation between female literacy and child sex ratio in Rajasthan. Literacy is one of the most important indicators of social development and female literacy shows a better condition of society. Literacy and education are universally recognized as a major component of human development. As such, certain minimum level of female literacy seems to be essential for a population to a break out the vicious of poverty and women empowerment. The knowledge of literacy and sex ratio is essential for the understanding the condition of women in society. A decline child sex ratio in literate female society is suggestive of the neglect of girl children, sex selective abortions and traditional attributes of the society. Thus, the analysis of female literacy and child sex ratio is immense significant. This paper revealed that there is negative correlation between female literacy and child sex ratio in Rajasthan. There is no positive development in the child sex ratio while having an increase in female literacy.